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Barry Moroney Palo Cedro, Calif...
...Palo Alto, Calif...
...nearly two decades, ever since Stanford Research Institute Scientist Douglas Engelbart built a scurrying table-top gadget in the mid-'60s nicknamed "the mouse." In the early 1970s, researchers at Xerox began improving on Engelbart's design, and soon after, computer experts at the company's Palo Alto research center began using a mouse in a computer language they called Smalltalk. By pointing and pressing buttons, they could send messages to and from objects on a screen without using a keyboard. In December 1979, Jobs and a group of Apple engineers visited Palo Alto for a demonstration...
...always had a different way of looking at things." Solitude may, however, have bred ambition. McCollum was stunned to learn that the young loner, needing parts for class projects, picked up the phone and called Burroughs collect in Detroit and Bill Hewlett, co-founder of Hewlett-Packard, over in Palo Alto...
...avoid the wrath of the Justice Department's trustbusters, had sold licenses for only $25,000 to anyone who wanted to make transistors, and the scramble was on to profit from them. William Shockley, one of the transistor's three inventors, returned to his California home town, Palo Alto, to form his own company in the heart of what would become known as Silicon Valley. In Dallas, a young, aggressive maker of exploration gear for the oil industry, Texas Instruments, had already hired away another Bell Labs star, Gordon Teal, and was churning out the little gadgets...